The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-09-01
RICH TEAS FROM INDIA.

Calcutta Sends Better Brands for Less
Money Than the Flowery Kingdom.
Most tea drinkers credit China and
Japan for their fragrant tipple. A great
deal of tea, and some of it very good, is
being brought here from India, CeyIon
and Java. Since 1876 the quantity of
tea imported to England from India,
CeylOn and Java has increased from 5, 900
pounds to $4,000, 900 pounds last year.
Large cOnsignments of it regularly reach
this country by way of London, and the
market rates of India teas are quoted
daily.
''Six years ago such a thing was I'M
heard of In New York, " said one of the
largest tea importers in the country. at
is striking instance of the richness of
Great Britain's India possessions and the
rapidity with which trade is being pushed
between England and her provinces"
SIS there any profit for American deal
ers in these India teas?'
mo; their importation so far has not
paid at either end. The exporters have
operated at a loss and importers here have
made no money. But the growers of
these teas believe that they viii eventually
supplant all others in the United States
as they have in England, and the exporta-
ton of them will be continued even at
temporary loss. -
''And you say they are as good as
China and Japan teas?''
Better. English retail dealers long
ago found out the value of fine India teas,
as the mixing of them with COngou or
English breakfast tea produces a flavor
that can be got in no other tea
lis India to run China and Japan out
of the trade, then?''
''Oh no. 1t is not claimed nor ex-
pected that the trade from China, Japan
or Formosa will be killed. China's high
est grade green teas are very fine. So
are the teas from Japan. Probably no
other best grade teas equal them. For
the India teas it is claimed, however,
that the cheaper grades are far superior
to the same grade from any other coun-
try. Hence the India trade will give the
people better quality of tea at much
lower price. No coloring matter what
ever is used in curing India teas, and they
contain absolutely nothing to affect the
nerves. Yet they are stronger than the
other brands. Let me show you the
difference in color when they are drawn
The importer took a delicate shallow
china teacup from shelf near by, and
little swinging copper teakettle from the
stove.
''Here is the green tea which we get
from China. You see it is very light,
not much darker than water. Then,
here is the Formosa Oolong, a medium
shade. This is the India tea, darker,
stronger, and more fragrant than either
of the others. Take Whit of it. -
The reporter tried it and found it
pleasant. The tea was almost a coffee
color, and it gave a rich, aromatic fra
GRANGE.
I'm point of purity, also, the India tea
beats them all, - continued the importer.
The fact that the inspector of teas of
the port of New York has shut out con-
signments of all other teas, some because
of adulteration, others for exhausted leaf
or cOloring, but has never shut out
pound of India tea, proves its superior
quality. The Madooree Garden, the
Dooloogram, the Parakau Salak, and the
Laiiong are few leading brands of India
teas. These are all shipped from Cal
cutta. New York Sun.